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  • MotorolaBann

    Motorola, why do you hate us so?

    First they said that efuse would brick your Droid x if you tried to reflash it. When that didn’t work and we started to reflash our, more than willing, droids they had to change their strategy a bit. Now Motorola is not only suing and...

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    Woman seduces teens with Xbox 360s

    A 42-year-old California woman, married and mother of three, is being charged with 67 counts of sexual assault, including oral copulation, lewd act on a child, and exhibition of lewd material to a minor, for having sexual relations with two teen boys under the age of...

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  • chew01_c1

    Comic Con 1/2 Way Rundown!

    Two of four days have passed of Comic-Con and I’m here to give you a rundown of whats happened so far! Mark Ruffalo is the Hulk, Edward Norton is out. Jeremy Renner is Bullseye, and Whedon is directing the avengers movie. So much more after...

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    WTF? Westboro Baptist Church To Picket Comic Con

    Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are a bunch of hate mongers. They picket things like soldiers’ funerals, court cases involving hate crimes, Lady Gaga, and really, anything they can give a half ass excuse of breaking the rules for whenever they see fit. These...

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  • Man dies after sitting through Twilight: Eclipse.

    Man dies after sitting through Twilight: Eclipse.

    Anthony Damien Smythe, 23, was found dead in his seat in the Reading Cinema complex on Courtenay Place by a security guard at the end of the 6 p.m. screening of the latest Twilight film, Eclipse, on Sunday night. Click on the read more tab...

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  • A sleeker, slimmer way to play.

    A sleeker, slimmer way to play.

    Shiny, small, and wifi oh my.  In true Microsoft fashion the big “M” has beat E3 to the punch by announcing their new Xbox 360 console which is smaller than the original along with a new cooling system, shinny finish and a hard drive that...

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  • What did you do AT&T?!?   We trusted you!   Sort of.

    What did you do AT&T?!? We trusted you! Sort of.

    Well AT&T, what do you have to say for yourself? For those of you just tuning in, AT&T has announced their new tiered data plans just in time for the new iPhone.  Other carriers have talked about it (Verizon) but AT&T was the first one...

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  • A Legend Lost

    A Legend Lost

    A legend among men, actors, and all of us who strive to be cooler than we are left us after teaching us the valuable lesson of how not to “etch ones cool”. Dennis Hopper passed on May 29th and left us with one of the...

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  • Gary Coleman Dies in Utah Hospital

    Gary Coleman Dies in Utah Hospital

    Today is a sad day for fans of the show Diff’rent Strokes and Gary Coleman. The 42-year-old actor died in a Utah Hospital today. He was hospitalized earlier this week because of head injuries. He went into a coma and was put on life support...

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  • Google TV? What’s that?

    Google TV? What’s that?

    Google TV?  Is it a boxee clone?  Is it a tv service?  Is it a magical box containing the secrets to life, the universe, and everythig? Not quite, but it is pretty magical all the same.  At Google IO this week Google announced Google TV,...

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  • Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Map Pack Announced

    Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Map Pack Announced

    What could possibly be any better than playing The Stimulus Map Pack on Modern Warfare 2 till the wee hours of the morning, fragging noobs with extreme joy?  Playing the NEW map pack of course.  The Resurgence Map Pack release date has been set, June...

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  • Podcast here we come!!!

    Podcast here we come!!!

    What could be better than reading geeky stories every time you’re online? Why, listening to geek talk when you’re not online (or when you are, who are we to judge). That’s right 8 Days A Geek will be producing our own bi-weekly podcast starting with our first...

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  • A quick overview of RIM’s new twitter app.

    A quick overview of RIM’s new twitter app.

    There are a lot of screen captures and info after the break so check it out. (My first post of this got somewhat deleted so I reposted) Ok, the first thing to mention is that this is only a beta (a very stable and quick...

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  • Official RIM twitter app hits public beta

    Official RIM twitter app hits public beta

    As of 9PM EST the official RIM twitter client will be available in the test center in the blackberry app store or on the beta zone website. I’m planning on refreshing the site until I get what I want. What about you? (Review of the...

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  • Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack coming to PC and PS3

    Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Pack coming to PC and PS3

    360 owners were already “allowed” to spend their hard earned live points to pay for the rather pricey stim pack and all of you PC and PS3 user will be able to soon too. The stimulus pack will release for the PS3 in the US...

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  • Blackberry Bold 9700 to have a white model

    Blackberry Bold 9700 to have a white model

    If the Black Blackberry Bold 9700 is just a little too butch for you or you live in a hermetically sealed home you might be interested to know that a white version of the newest Blackberry smartphone has been seen on the company’s Thai site....

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  • Stabbed in the head and still alive, a story to tell the grandchildren.

    Stabbed in the head and still alive, a story to tell the grandchildren.

    He was stabbed in the head at a cyber cafe. (Nothing good can happen in cyber cafes, I’ve come to believe.) Xiao Wei, a 16-year-old Chinese boy, was playing Counter-Strike against opponents in the same Mishazi cafe with a friend. A group of said opponents...

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  • Wii-flix!

    Wii-flix!

    If you own a Wii and ordered you netflix streaming disc your in for a surprise. It should arrive in the next couple of days. The first batch of discs just shipped out this morning. I wish that netflix and the console companies would just...

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  • 250GB Xbox 360 HDD on sale today

    250GB Xbox 360 HDD on sale today

    You wanted more storage space on your 360 and as of today Microsoft has given you that space. The 250GB xbox 360 hdd went on sale today for $130 (that’s about $40 less than Japan who’s had the drive for a couple of months already)....

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  • 8 Days a Geek goes mobile!

    8 Days a Geek goes mobile!

    Have you ever wanted to read your favorite 8 days a geek posts while you’re out of the house? Well use your phones RSS reader. Oh your phone doesn’t have one? Well don’t worry, we here at 8DAG won’t leave a geek behind. We now...

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